Why not play games online instead of gambling?

[Kevin77]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

Man, it's like to ask: Why don't you play assassinms creed over prince of persia. Really, it's similar question. Everyone has different taste, for some people poker and blackjack is good, for others some arcades and etc. Everyone finds different thing for fun. Usually people gamble for getting profit but if anyone claims they gamble for fun, that's great if it's reality.

Well, to answer your question, that is because you cannot play assassin’s creed and prince of Persia at once, but not because you do not like the two. I know where you are driving at, but this is a different case scenario here.

Assassin’s creed and prince of Persia are both games that you can play for fun, however, if we are talking about gambling where you even lose money in the process and then calling it fun, I guess that is overrated. We should call a spade a spade, people gamble because they have the belief that they can get lucky and make some extra cash, we should leave the fun aspect aside.

[Bitinity]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

Man, it's like to ask: Why don't you play assassinms creed over prince of persia. Really, it's similar question. Everyone has different taste, for some people poker and blackjack is good, for others some arcades and etc. Everyone finds different thing for fun. Usually people gamble for getting profit but if anyone claims they gamble for fun, that's great if it's reality.

Well, to answer your question, that is because you cannot play assassin’s creed and prince of Persia at once, but not because you do not like the two. I know where you are driving at, but this is a different case scenario here.

Assassin’s creed and prince of Persia are both games that you can play for fun, however, if we are talking about gambling where you even lose money in the process and then calling it fun, I guess that is overrated. We should call a spade a spade, people gamble because they have the belief that they can get lucky and make some extra cash, we should leave the fun aspect aside.

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It is the reason why people get addicted to gambling, once you leave the fun aspect then your main purpose is for money only. This will lead you into worst situation, because the desire to get more money when you win and the desire to recover when you lose keeps rising. This will be the beginning of something called by addiction. Those who use gamble for fun will never got into that situation, because they have a limit on gambling as long as they enjoy the fun part on gambling then they will stop no matter they are losing or winning.

[ArnoldChippy]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

Man, it's like to ask: Why don't you play assassinms creed over prince of persia. Really, it's similar question. Everyone has different taste, for some people poker and blackjack is good, for others some arcades and etc. Everyone finds different thing for fun. Usually people gamble for getting profit but if anyone claims they gamble for fun, that's great if it's reality.

Well, to answer your question, that is because you cannot play assassin’s creed and prince of Persia at once, but not because you do not like the two. I know where you are driving at, but this is a different case scenario here.

Assassin’s creed and prince of Persia are both games that you can play for fun, however, if we are talking about gambling where you even lose money in the process and then calling it fun, I guess that is overrated. We should call a spade a spade, people gamble because they have the belief that they can get lucky and make some extra cash, we should leave the fun aspect aside.

THIS
It is the reason why people get addicted to gambling, once you leave the fun aspect then your main purpose is for money only. This will lead you into worst situation, because the desire to get more money when you win and the desire to recover when you lose keeps rising. This will be the beginning of something called by addiction. Those who use gamble for fun will never got into that situation, because they have a limit on gambling as long as they enjoy the fun part on gambling then they will stop no matter they are losing or winning.

Even after losing money in gambling still people consider gambling as the easiest way of making money, They always argue that for next time if they will play again they will surely make money from gambling, but for every time they lose their money and for every time they argue to play gambling again and again to make money and that is why they become addicted and then find it hard to stop gambling. 

[usekevin]

Playing gambling is like a addiction to the drug.If you got more dollars in any consecutive games,you will addicted to the gambling earn lot of money by just playing .From the children all love to play a game, if they got money for just playing. They will surely do that.This is one of the main reason for the increase in gamblers day to day.

[Rinsend]

If you got more dollars in any consecutive games,

I think this assumption is wrong,
even many gamblers who despite suffering defeat but still they become gambling addicts.
because they want to try to restore all the losses they experienced,
despite the facts otherwise.
you can feel the atmosphere of gambling when you first try

[darkangel11]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

And where's the money aspect in that? Sure, online games played with friends or just random people are fun, but their purpose is completely different from the purpose of gambling. To give you an example, online gaming's main psychical aspect is rivalry and sense of accomplishment. You want to beat other people and feel that envy towards you, when others congratulate you or are angry because they can't handle the beating. You feel relaxed and happy, that's it. No real profit.
Gambling gives you similar sense of accomplishment, but it also fills your wallet.

[St4yInTh3D4rk]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

And where's the money aspect in that? Sure, online games played with friends or just random people are fun, but their purpose is completely different from the purpose of gambling. To give you an example, online gaming's main psychical aspect is rivalry and sense of accomplishment. You want to beat other people and feel that envy towards you, when others congratulate you or are angry because they can't handle the beating. You feel relaxed and happy, that's it. No real profit.
Gambling gives you similar sense of accomplishment, but it also fills your wallet.

Yeah you are right both give different levels of fun and pleasure,so we can't online gambling as an alternative for gambling.But most of the people doing gambling for money making so the fact is they need to risk their money if they want to multiply it.

[Finestream]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

And where's the money aspect in that? Sure, online games played with friends or just random people are fun, but their purpose is completely different from the purpose of gambling. To give you an example, online gaming's main psychical aspect is rivalry and sense of accomplishment. You want to beat other people and feel that envy towards you, when others congratulate you or are angry because they can't handle the beating. You feel relaxed and happy, that's it. No real profit.
Gambling gives you similar sense of accomplishment, but it also fills your wallet.

Yeah you are right both give different levels of fun and pleasure,so we can't online gambling as an alternative for gambling.But most of the people doing gambling for money making so the fact is they need to risk their money if they want to multiply it.

I agree.People who play online games even at home just feel pure fun and pleasure.But with gambling in real casinos,the players don't just want to feel fun and excitement but they have also that eagerness to win and make some profit.Of course they will if they got the luck somehow but most of the time,they just go  home with their pockets empty but still wish to play again to win back their losses.

[yoseph]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

I really agree with OP there are so many gambling games where you don't use the actual money and since it barely for fun they can play those games, People may go in for the fun but in the end, it's going to be all about the money.

[jayhawk1]

They not similar online games are different to crypto gambling like the knowledge and their fun too,In online games we play it to have fun and good for past time also but if you think more we can't earn in that so it's no future,In crypto gambling even you risk some money still we can earn here while we play so we have future here,we can invest our earnings here in campaigns and faucets to trading and some gambling site so i say we can take risk with no lose at all,all we need to do is to learn for the win.

Future? I doubt this thing will only happen into those people who are lucky enough to win or secure big amounts that would guarantee them a good future but focusing too much on playing wont really give you any advantage on life since this is solely created for entertainment. Both things is entertaining but they do differ on chances on making money. Playing online games might not give you any earning but also wont lose you money too unlike on gambling which do work into different way.

If someone wants to enjoy big amounts of money then he needs to do something for that first. In gambling, it just costs the gambler his money. If he lucky, he will become rich. Nothing is for free in this world. Some risk is always involved but in my opinion, taking gambling risk is unnecessary. Same goal can be achieved by better means. Online gamers are different from gamblers. Every one functions according to his taste.

[MMA]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

And where's the money aspect in that? Sure, online games played with friends or just random people are fun, but their purpose is completely different from the purpose of gambling. To give you an example, online gaming's main psychical aspect is rivalry and sense of accomplishment. You want to beat other people and feel that envy towards you, when others congratulate you or are angry because they can't handle the beating. You feel relaxed and happy, that's it. No real profit.
Gambling gives you similar sense of accomplishment, but it also fills your wallet.

Yeah you are right both give different levels of fun and pleasure,so we can't online gambling as an alternative for gambling.But most of the people doing gambling for money making so the fact is they need to risk their money if they want to multiply it.

I agree.People who play online games even at home just feel pure fun and pleasure.But with gambling in real casinos,the players don't just want to feel fun and excitement but they have also that eagerness to win and make some profit.Of course they will if they got the luck somehow but most of the time,they just go  home with their pockets empty but still wish to play again to win back their losses.

Those people who play gambling for fun and enjoyment they like to play gambling in casinos, while those people who mostly want to play gambling for making money they like to play it online, as they can play gambling in any time of the day or night. They do not need to visit any casino but can play gambling from their house very easily.

[noormcs5]

They not similar online games are different to crypto gambling like the knowledge and their fun too,In online games we play it to have fun and good for past time also but if you think more we can't earn in that so it's no future,In crypto gambling even you risk some money still we can earn here while we play so we have future here,we can invest our earnings here in campaigns and faucets to trading and some gambling site so i say we can take risk with no lose at all,all we need to do is to learn for the win.

Future? I doubt this thing will only happen into those people who are lucky enough to win or secure big amounts that would guarantee them a good future but focusing too much on playing wont really give you any advantage on life since this is solely created for entertainment. Both things is entertaining but they do differ on chances on making money. Playing online games might not give you any earning but also wont lose you money too unlike on gambling which do work into different way.

If someone wants to enjoy big amounts of money then he needs to do something for that first. In gambling, it just costs the gambler his money. If he lucky, he will become rich. Nothing is for free in this world. Some risk is always involved but in my opinion, taking gambling risk is unnecessary. Same goal can be achieved by better means. Online gamers are different from gamblers. Every one functions according to his taste.

Yeah, in this point wise, if anyone want to win money and when we start to play games with money then we have addiction to play gambling, then we can't feel attraction on online games without money. Because gambling has a lot of taste in it like excitement, fun and luck.

[ronafurw]

Games have their own benefits and entertainment value. But gambling with real money and having them at stake based on your wins and losses provide a different kind of thrill.

That is the point. Online games do not involve this element. For those people who love to take risk and are adventurous by nature, these games become boredom after few shots. Risking money, waiting for the results, the hope of winning and the moments before the outcome are what gambling makes attractive to risk takers. In addition to this, everyone has his own taste. So our definitions and means of entertainment vary from individual to individual.

[Pamadar]

Games have their own benefits and entertainment value. But gambling with real money and having them at stake based on your wins and losses provide a different kind of thrill.

That is the point. Online games do not involve this element. For those people who love to take risk and are adventurous by nature, these games become boredom after few shots. Risking money, waiting for the results, the hope of winning and the moments before the outcome are what gambling makes attractive to risk takers. In addition to this, everyone has his own taste. So our definitions and means of entertainment vary from individual to individual.

Just exactly to what we are seeing right now, we have our own position about gambling and no matter how we wanted to divert our attentions we are still finding more entertainment when we are dealing with gambling, the excitement and the fulfilling enjoyment when we win are really giving too much addiction to most the players/ gamblers around.

[xSkylarx]

Playing gambling is like a addiction to the drug.If you got more dollars in any consecutive games,you will addicted to the gambling earn lot of money by just playing .From the children all love to play a game, if they got money for just playing. They will surely do that.This is one of the main reason for the increase in gamblers day to day.

We have our own perspective when it comes to a certain thing, let's make gambling as an example, even though we are saying that everybody who are playin gambling should play online games instead of gambling, they will not listen, why? because they wanted to do gambling, they are happy to play gambling more than playin games online, it is a habit that you can't just forget in just a second, it is not that easy.

[serjent05]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

Man, it's like to ask: Why don't you play assassinms creed over prince of persia. Really, it's similar question. Everyone has different taste, for some people poker and blackjack is good, for others some arcades and etc. Everyone finds different thing for fun. Usually people gamble for getting profit but if anyone claims they gamble for fun, that's great if it's reality.

Well, to answer your question, that is because you cannot play assassin’s creed and prince of Persia at once, but not because you do not like the two. I know where you are driving at, but this is a different case scenario here.

Assassin’s creed and prince of Persia are both games that you can play for fun, however, if we are talking about gambling where you even lose money in the process and then calling it fun, I guess that is overrated. We should call a spade a spade, people gamble because they have the belief that they can get lucky and make some extra cash, we should leave the fun aspect aside.

THIS
It is the reason why people get addicted to gambling, once you leave the fun aspect then your main purpose is for money only. This will lead you into worst situation, because the desire to get more money when you win and the desire to recover when you lose keeps rising. This will be the beginning of something called by addiction. Those who use gamble for fun will never got into that situation, because they have a limit on gambling as long as they enjoy the fun part on gambling then they will stop no matter they are losing or winning.

But honestly it is the excitement and fun that makes people addicted to both gambling and games.  I do agree with you but somehow had add-on in it.  The thrill and fun of winning money each time we roll a dice or push that slot button is the one that made us to be addicted on the game.  The bottom line is, there is fun in winning money and the add on of thrill that elevate the effect.  If there is no fun nor thrill I bet we won't be playing gambling games.

[orions.belt19]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

And where's the money aspect in that? Sure, online games played with friends or just random people are fun, but their purpose is completely different from the purpose of gambling. To give you an example, online gaming's main psychical aspect is rivalry and sense of accomplishment. You want to beat other people and feel that envy towards you, when others congratulate you or are angry because they can't handle the beating. You feel relaxed and happy, that's it. No real profit.
Gambling gives you similar sense of accomplishment, but it also fills your wallet.

Yeah you are right both give different levels of fun and pleasure,so we can't online gambling as an alternative for gambling.But most of the people doing gambling for money making so the fact is they need to risk their money if they want to multiply it.

I agree.People who play online games even at home just feel pure fun and pleasure.But with gambling in real casinos,the players don't just want to feel fun and excitement but they have also that eagerness to win and make some profit.Of course they will if they got the luck somehow but most of the time,they just go  home with their pockets empty but still wish to play again to win back their losses.

Even when their pockets are empty, gamblers would still want to play and relive the thrill of betting. This is something that an online game cannot replicate because there is no risk of losing when you are playing an online game. You may die in the game and have another life but when you are gambling, you put something at risk and hope for it to either multiply or to lose it totally, or even worse, lose more than that. Gambling provides a sense of satisfaction once you win which may not be experienced in online games.

[ajochems]

It's seems to be great idea.Now there are lot of free online games which is more interested then a gambling.For that you are no need to pay at all.So the gambling addict may choose this to play for their fun.You can use this online games to reduce the loss in gambling addiction.

[supandi wiharja]

For me, online games are not at risk of losing money but just a waste of time.
Somehow, although gambling is very high risk, but i feel happy when playing.
I realize that so many people lose their money by gambling, but they don't want to stop, instead they become addicted and want to keep playing.
In addition to fun, gambling is also profitable when we are lucky.

[mrcash02]

Many but not all gamblers are claiming they gamble for fun and pass time. I was just thinking. If it is the reason why people gamble then why not play online games? There is a lot of good and challenging onlne games wherein you can interact with other people online?

And where's the money aspect in that? Sure, online games played with friends or just random people are fun, but their purpose is completely different from the purpose of gambling. To give you an example, online gaming's main psychical aspect is rivalry and sense of accomplishment. You want to beat other people and feel that envy towards you, when others congratulate you or are angry because they can't handle the beating. You feel relaxed and happy, that's it. No real profit.
Gambling gives you similar sense of accomplishment, but it also fills your wallet.

Yeah you are right both give different levels of fun and pleasure,so we can't online gambling as an alternative for gambling.But most of the people doing gambling for money making so the fact is they need to risk their money if they want to multiply it.

I agree.People who play online games even at home just feel pure fun and pleasure.But with gambling in real casinos,the players don't just want to feel fun and excitement but they have also that eagerness to win and make some profit.Of course they will if they got the luck somehow but most of the time,they just go  home with their pockets empty but still wish to play again to win back their losses.

Even when their pockets are empty, gamblers would still want to play and relive the thrill of betting. This is something that an online game cannot replicate because there is no risk of losing when you are playing an online game. You may die in the game and have another life but when you are gambling, you put something at risk and hope for it to either multiply or to lose it totally, or even worse, lose more than that. Gambling provides a sense of satisfaction once you win which may not be experienced in online games.

Yes, it's purely for the excitement aspect. The feeling you have when gambling it's not the same while playing online games. It's not even about necessity to earn money, because money could be made by playing online games and selling accounts/game's money/items later for real money. And those more addicted that try playing online games to forget gambling will have difficult to do this, because inside the online games gambling also exists. There are real big gambling industries inside online games moving thousands of dollars daily...